About Scam School
If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again! Read more
The latest from Scam School: Episode 42 - How to Rip a Phonebook in Half!
The tables are turned on Brian, as he is the student learning from the ultimate master of strength!
Episode 41 - Scam Hot Ladies at the Bar (Part 2)!
December 25th, 2008 - A while back, we taught you the importance of using easy, beatable puzzles to keep girls talking to you at the bar. Our Holiday gift to you is another set of "getting the girl" routines!
Episode 40 - Money, a Short Con and Crime = Short Change
December 18th, 2008 - This episode, we're turning to the dark side and learning actual CRIME. Remember, the following is for INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!
Episode 39 - How to Stick a Nail Up Your Nose
December 11th, 2008 - Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose? This time he shows you how it works!
Episode 38 - A Few Pennies for a Beer!
December 4th, 2008 - No matter what the setup, the very best scams are the ones that let the mark think they're on top, only to get punked in the end. That's what makes the penny prediction so great!
Episode 37 - You're Always a Winner with Advance Nim
November 27th, 2008 - Memorize a few configs and you'll hold the key to another unbeatable game and loads of free drinks!
Episode 36 - Are You Dead or Alive?
November 20th, 2008 - As a conversation starter, Brian shows you how to use two toothpicks to detect a pulse.
Episode 35 - Stick It To 'Em with The Funnel
November 13th, 2008 - We present the atomic bomb of sucker gags: The Funnel!
Episode 34 - It's In the Bank
November 6th, 2008 - This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.
Episode 33 - From the Forums - Part 2!
October 30th, 2008 - This week Brian is back in the Revision 3 studios another "From the Forums episode"!
Episode 32 - The 11 cent slide to TWICE as many free drinks!
October 23rd, 2008 - If you liked the four-quarter puzzle from Episode 2 (appropriately named, "The Puzzle"), you're going to LOVE the 11-Cent Slide. It's every bit as diabolical and unsolvable as the 4-quarter puzzle, but it has an added t...
Episode 31 - How to Predict the Future!
October 16th, 2008 - What's better than a card trick? Predicting the FREAKING FUTURE, which is exactly what you'll do in this scam. We call it Pigment Prediction.
Episode 30 - Controlled Cards
October 9th, 2008 - We've taught you how to scam, swindle, and steal... but we have yet to give you any actual talent. That all changes in this episode. We're going to teach you not only how to control a card to the bottom of the deck, but...
Episode 29 - Dan Martin's Match Trick
October 2nd, 2008 - A new take on an old-time match trick
Episode 28 - Mind Control Scam
September 25th, 2008 - A brand new illusion that will trick your friends into believing in MIND CONTROL.
Episode 27 - Cheesy Beer Gags
September 18th, 2008 - As you know by now, we here at Scam School pride ourselves on giving you only the very best bar scams. Today we break our streak, and instead present you with four stupid beer gags.
Episode 26 - The Equation
September 11th, 2008 - A stumper of a puzzle‚ using only 4th grade math.
Episode 25 - The Key Card
September 4th, 2008 - Effect: This card trick is quite possible responsible for more free beers than any other in history. It's not just a magic trick, it's a cleverly-laid trap guaranteed to win you a frosty cold one.
Episode 24 - From the Forums
August 28th, 2008 - This week Brian steps out of the bar, and into the Revision3 studios to deliver an episode straight from the Forums!
Episode 23 - The Ash
August 21st, 2008 - Effect: Let an entire cigarette burn without the ash falling.
Episode 22 - Fast and Loose
August 14th, 2008 - This game goes by a bunch of names: "fast and loose," "pricking the garter," "the endless chain," "the strap..." The object is simple: a chain is laid in a figure-eight configuration. One of the holes is the true cent...
Episode 21 - Clever Match Trick Scores Free Drinks
August 7th, 2008 - All you need is a match, two pint glasses and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night!
Episode 20 - Quicksilver Matches
July 31st, 2008 - It's Magic 101. Can you mimic the master?
Episode 19 - The Amazing Whiskey/Water Trick
July 24th, 2008 - Apply high school physics to amaze your friends and win free drinks.
Episode 18 - BUSTED! 6 Matches and 4 Triangles puzzle
July 17th, 2008 - Watch the Master finally get beat at his own game!
Episode 17 - Code Drink
July 10th, 2008 - Effect: Surprise your friends by telling them you have X-ray vision
Episode 16 - Scam Hot Chicks at the Bar
July 3rd, 2008 - A guaranteed, never fail way to get the hottest girls at the bar to talk with you for at least 20 minutes.
Episode 15 - Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (Part 2)
June 26th, 2008 - This is the second and final half of Brian's opening act for Diggnation in NY.
Episode 14 - Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (Part 1)
June 19th, 2008 - Brian opened for the live Diggnation show in New York, and we have it here for those who missed it!
Episode 13 - Cigarette Out On Tongue
June 12th, 2008 - This one's like a playground dare gone too far...
Episode 12 - Straw Teepee Puzzle
June 5th, 2008 - Effect: Amaze fellow bar patrons by picking up two straws using only one other straw.
Episode 11 - Static Charge Match
May 29th, 2008 - Effect: Despite being an insulator, Brian is able to charge a match with static electricity which then causes another match to jump into the air.
Episode 10 - Circumference vs. Height
May 22nd, 2008 - This episode tests your visual perception. Which is more? The circumference of the rim of a pint glass, or the height of the pint glass from the bottom to the top?
Episode 9 - The Jack-O-Lantern
May 15th, 2008 - Placing a lit match inside your mouth, you do a very convincing impression of a grinning jack-o-lantern...all without burning yourself.
Episode 8 - Nim
May 8th, 2008 - Effect: Play a game with your friend that you can always win
Episode 7 - The Race
May 1st, 2008 - Effect: Bet your friend that you can drink 2 pints of beer before he can drink two shots of his favorite liquor.
Episode 6 - The Lift
April 24th, 2008 - Effect: Defying all laws of leverage, you summon a ridiculous amount of strength.
Episode 5 - How to Stick Your Friends to the Bar
April 17th, 2008 - This clever trick uses a pint of beer and two willing thumbs to handcuff your friend (or enemy) to the bar, while you take his keys, wallet, girlfriend and more.
Episode 4 - The Mirror
April 10th, 2008 - For this effect we've dressed up a straight-up old school bar scam. Here's the simple presentation for the classic "you do as I do" effect: Bet a friend he can't copy everything you do.
Episode 3 - Bang Your Head
April 9th, 2008 - Effect: Your friend beats his head on the bar repeatedly, to everyone's delight.
Episode 2 - The Puzzle
April 8th, 2008 - Effect: a hard-as-balls puzzle, that will drive everyone nuts and win you some free booze!
Episode 1 - The Human Chimney
April 7th, 2008 - From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs!
Scam School News 
Scam School Subtitled! French & Spanish For All!
12/04/2008
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Scam School Taping in San Francisco!
11/13/2008
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Revision3 Launches Incubator - “Revision3 Beta”
08/14/2008
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